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by pell 7y ago
I didn't talk about innocence. I am talking about human dignity and rehabilitation.
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by pell 7y ago
The way American society treats convicts and ex-convicts is baffling to me. It's as if rehabilitation is not even a pretense anymore.
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by pell 7y ago
Just watched the iMac G4 introduction on the site. That is still the most beautiful computer ever built.
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by pell 7y ago
>The German foreign minister did that on the basis of an interview that wasn't even publicly available at that point. So nobody could actually read the full context of Hallam's statements, but plenty of people ended up reading
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by pell 7y ago
I did not claim the AfD denied the Holocaust as that's illegal in Germany. But Gauland from the AfD famously called the Holocaust "Vogelschiss" which is not far away from Hallam's "fuckery", is it? Was he perse
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by pell 7y ago
I have a hard time agreeing with your assessment here. Roger Hallam called the holocaust "just another fuckery in human history" in the context of past atrocities that left millions of people dead. Germany's foreign minister
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by pell 7y ago
I am not sure what your example from Germany is supposed to show. The author was not persecuted, his publisher simply stopped selling his book. This seems vastly different to India turning off an entire communication channel.
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by pell 7y ago
Fair point.
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by pell 7y ago
>What is new is that even democratic countries are controlling free speech via speech laws or often the private companies engaging in evaluating what's permissible speech and not above and beyond what laws require. So, are you refer
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by pell 7y ago
Surely not a fan of China's internet censorship or India shutting down the internet whenever people protest their insane nationalistic politics, but let's not forget what the NSA from the land of the "free" does.
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by pell 7y ago
You might enjoy this episode of the podcast "Rough Translation"about a McDonald's in France: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771319514/rough-translation-l...
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by pell 7y ago
The jury system seems completely corrupt to me. I am glad we do not use this method in criminal trials here in Germany where I live.
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by pell 7y ago
I know it's a very private question, but would you be able to describe the trip and the long lasting effects more?
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by pell 7y ago
>To me, your argument kinda feels like a #NotAllMen or "You are racist for pointing out I benefit from and perpetuate racism." I am challenging a specific type of discourse, and you are inventing generalized, absolute extrapola
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by pell 7y ago
> Have you been in an argument recently about whether women deserve the right to own property? I have been in plenty of arguments about abortion rights, rights of asylum seekers, rights of minorities, etc. The list goes on. A point being
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by pell 7y ago
Did the poster say anything that was incorrect?
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by pell 7y ago
These are two different arguments, of course. Google isn't a public service, so I do not expect their algorithm to be public. But Google's dominant position also might make it almost impossible for a competitor to emerge. I am not
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by pell 7y ago
Yes, talking about corporations avoiding taxes is the same as talking about Mexicans and refugees coming to destroy your country. You really need a dose of nuance.
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by pell 7y ago
There is regulation for political ads in almost any medium. I don't see why Facebook is exempt from that. The anger towards Facebook is easy to understand as they categorize Breitbart News as "trusted" in their News section.
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by pell 7y ago
I always appreciated this one. To copy an idea, you try to replicate it, to steal an idea, you have to make it your own.
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by pell 7y ago
How are you handling privacy and people's criminal records? I find the US-style background checks very invasive, rarely helpful and absolutely counter to offering second chances to people who want to get back on their feet. How will yo
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by pell 7y ago
What they're currently doing to Uyghurs is despicable.
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by pell 8y ago
Wow, Joanna really carried that bit till the very last word. I love it.
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by pell 8y ago
The problem is that you're simplifying in the first place. You seem to use "entitlement" only in a negative fashion akin to "freeloading" or "expecting something for free". I am using entitlement in a lega
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by pell 8y ago
I was not arguing for prolonging the suffering of animals as some method to make people turn away from animal products. I'm not really sure where you seem to have read that in my comment. I don't think that's a fruitful strat
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by pell 8y ago
Germany - like many other countries - is not a libertarian state. Pricing caps are not new here, underpricing and overpricing are defined and limited in certain scenarios and for a number of goods like doctor or lawyer fees, medication, boo
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by pell 8y ago
I don't understand why you need to be obnoxiously sarcastic here. There are quite a few situations where governments set limits on how much a good can be priced at. It definitely is entitlement to be able to rent to the highest bidder.
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by pell 8y ago
I want to lessen and limit suffering. If that is what you want as well I doubt your idea here is going to work as it seems like you have a very naive concept of drugs. People who are high, especially when they use drugs frequently, are not
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by pell 8y ago
Yes, these are the rules of a free market. But if a society or a governing body has additional priorities, rules can be added to such a framework. So, in the end it actually is a question about entitlement. Is a landlord entitled to rent to
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by pell 8y ago
So people with money are entitled to it then?

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